Birth Date between 1873-01-01 and 1873-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Fred Stone
Actor | Alice Adams
Hardly remembered today, if at all, Fred Stone was once one of the most multi-faceted circus performers to hit turn-of-the century America. There seemed to be nothing he couldn't do--tightrope walking, acrobatics, clowning . . . you name it. This initial celebrity eventually led to his stellar ...
2. Arthur Hoyt
Actor | It Happened One Night
Extremely prolific actor/director of the silent screen, on Broadway from 1905. Hoyt joined the acting fraternity through the recommendations of an uncle, who worked as dramatic editor for a Cleveland tabloid. Signed by theatrical producer George C. Tyler (1868-1946), he began on stage (earning $10 ...
3. Alice Guy
Director | The Woman of Mystery
The world's first female filmmaker, French-born Alice Guy entered the film business in 1896 as a secretary at Gaumont, a manufacturer of movie cameras and projectors who had purchased a "cinématographer" from its inventors, the Lumiere brothers. The next year Gaumont became the world's first motion...
4. Robert Wiene
Director | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene was born on April 24, 1873 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Das wandernde Licht (1916) and The Knight of the Rose (1925). He died on July 17, 1938 in Paris, France.
5. Louis Feuillade
Director | Les vampires
A prolific director--over 700 films, most of them short- or medium-length--Louis Feuillade began his career with Gaumont where, as well as directing his own features, he was appointed artistic director in charge of production in 1907. His work was largely comprised of film series; his first series,...
6. Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Actress | Maid of Salem
Madame Sul-Te-Wan was born on March 7, 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Maid of Salem (1937), In Old Chicago (1938) and Safari (1940). She was previously married to Robert Reed Conley. She died on February 1, 1959 in Hollywood, California, USA.
7. Jean Adair
Actress | Arsenic and Old Lace
Slight, birdlike Jean Adair came to the screen after playing a succession of crotchety or maternal roles on the stage. She was born Violet McNaughton in Ontario, Canada, and absolved her acting studies in Chicago. After extensive touring with local stock companies and a few seasons on the ...
8. Sergei Rachmaninoff
Soundtrack | Superhero Movie
Sergei Rachmaninoff (also spelled Rachmaninov) was a legendary Russian-American composer and pianist who fled Russia after the Communist revolution of 1917, and became one of the highest paid concert stars of his time, and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century.
He was born Sergei ...
9. Colette
Writer | Gigi
Colette was born on January 28, 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France. She was a writer, known for Gigi (1958), Chéri (2009) and Matinee Theatre (1955). She was previously married to Maurice Goudeket, Henri de Jouvenel des Ursins and Willy. She died on August 3, 1954 in Paris, ...
10. Aubrey Mallalieu
Actor | The Door with Seven Locks
Aubrey Mallalieu was born on June 8, 1873 in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Chamber of Horrors (1940), Haunted Honeymoon (1940) and The Stars Look Down (1940). He was previously married to Winifred A. Chadwick. He died on May 28, 1948 in Ealing, London, ...
11. Charles Avery
Actor | The Taming of the Shrew
Charles Avery was born on May 28, 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Taming of the Shrew (1908), His Lying Heart (1916) and A Janitor's Fall (1918). He died on July 23, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
12. Max Reinhardt
Director | Sumurûn
Max Reinhardt was from an Austrian merchant family (surname officially changed from the family name Goldmann to Reinhardt in 1904), and even as a boy, after his family moved to Vienna, he haunted the "Hofburg Theater" and tried to see every play. In 1890 he studied at the Sulkowsky Theater in ...
13. Wilbur Mack
Actor | Redheads on Parade
Wilbur Mack was born on July 29, 1873 in Binghamton, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Redheads on Parade (1935), Gold and Grit (1925) and The Crimson Canyon (1928). He was previously married to Constance Purdy and Nella Walker. He died on March 13, 1964 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...
14. Tom Murray
Actor | The Gold Rush
Tom Murray was born on September 8, 1873 in Stonefoot, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Gold Rush (1925), Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) and Into Her Kingdom (1926). He was previously married to Louise Carver. He died on August 27, 1935 in Hollywood, California, USA.
15. Vera Lewis
Actress | Betty in Search of a Thrill
Vera Lewis was born on June 10, 1873 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Betty in Search of a Thrill (1915), Four Daughters (1938) and The Roaring Twenties (1939). She was previously married to Ralph Lewis. She died on February 8, 1956 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...
16. Leo Slezak
Actor | Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann
Leo Slezak was born on August 18, 1873 in Mährisch-Schönberg, Austria-Hungary [now Sumperk, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann (1938), Die lustigen Weiber (1936) and Ihr größter Erfolg (1934). He was previously married to Elisabeth Wertheim. ...
17. Lee De Forest
Producer | Phonofilm
Lee De Forest was born on August 26, 1873 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Phonofilm (1923), A Musical Monologue (1923) and Syncopation and Song (1927). He was previously married to Marie Mosquini, Nora Stanton Blatch, Lucille Sheardown and Mary Mayo (concert ...
18. Miriam Nesbitt
Actress | The Declaration of Independence
Miriam Nesbitt was born on September 14, 1873 in chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Declaration of Independence (1911), Mary Stuart (1913) and The Corsican Brothers (1912). She was previously married to Marc McDermott. She died on August 11, 1954 in Hollywood, California, USA.
19. Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor was a poor Hungarian immigrant when he arrived in the United States in 1889. He tried his hand in the fur trade (starting as a sweeper for $2 a week pay) and proved his entrepreneurial acumen by steady advancement, eventually setting up successful businesses in New York and Chicago. By...
20. Theodore Lorch
Actor | The Last of the Mohicans
Theodore Lorch was born on September 29, 1873 in Springfield, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Last of the Mohicans (1920), Half-Wits Holiday (1947) and Ginsberg the Great (1927). He was previously married to Diana Christiansen, Jeanette ?, Cecil and Mary. He died on November 12, 1947 ...
21. Enrico Caruso
Soundtrack | Match Point
Enrico Caruso (b. Errico Caruso) was born on February 25, 1873, in Naples, Italy. He was the third of seven children to a poor alcoholic father. He received little primary education and briefly studied music with conductor Vicenzo Lombardini. His early income was from singing serenades.
Caruso made ...
22. Sidney Olcott
Director | For Ireland's Sake
Prolific silent film director, the son of Irish immigrants. Olcott started as an actor on the New York stage and then appeared in films for Mutoscope in 1904, eventually working his way up to general manager of Biograph. Lured away to a rival company he began to direct features for Kalem by 1907. ...
23. Alice Cooper
Self | You Bet Your Life
Alice Cooper was born on September 10, 1873 in Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for You Bet Your Life (1950). She was previously married to Charles Henry Cooper. She died on October 6, 1967 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
24. John St. Polis
Actor | Why Be Good?
John St. Polis was born on November 24, 1873 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Why Be Good? (1929), The Great Lover (1920) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921). He was previously married to Angela M. Grimaldi and Rachel Amelia Ryan. He died on October 8, 1946 in ...
25. Billy Quirk
Actor | Algie, the Miner
Billy Quirk was born on March 27, 1873 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Algie, the Miner (1912), The Man Worthwhile (1921) and The Maverick (1912). He was previously married to Patsy Jane Holcomb. He died on April 20, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
26. Guy Standing
Actor | Death Takes a Holiday
Guy Standing was born on September 1, 1873 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) and Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937). He was previously married to Dorothy Hammond, Blanche Burton and Isabelle Urquhart. He died on February 24, ...
27. Cecil M. Hepworth
Producer | Alice in Wonderland
Born in London, England, in 1874, Cecil Hepworth was one of the founders of the British film industry, directing and producing many films from 1898 into the late 1920s. Developing an early interest in films from following his father on lecture tours about the magic-lantern, he patented several ...
28. Bert Lindley
Actor | Are We Civilized?
Bert Lindley was born on December 3, 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Are We Civilized? (1934), Custer of Big Horn (1926) and Wild Bill Hickok (1923). He was previously married to Elizabeth (Bessie) Frances Fisher. He died on September 12, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, ...
29. Zelda Sears
Writer | The Divorcee
Zelda Sears was born on January 21, 1873 in Brockway, Michigan, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for The Divorcee (1930), A Wicked Woman (1934) and This Side of Heaven (1934). She was previously married to Louis C. Wiswell and Herbert E. Sears (actor). She died on February 19, 1935 in ...
30. Ford West
Actor | Fighting Fate
Ford West was born on March 27, 1873 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Fighting Fate (1921), The Broadway Gallant (1926) and King of the Wild Horses (1933). He was previously married to May Milloy. He died on January 3, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
31. William Vedder
Actor | The Wild One
William Vedder was born on September 9, 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wild One (1953), The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) and You Never Can Tell (1951). He died on March 3, 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.
32. Sydney Booth
Actor | The Battle of Trafalgar
Sydney Booth was born on January 29, 1873 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Battle of Trafalgar (1911), The Three Musketeers: Part 1 (1911) and The Star Spangled Banner (1911). He was previously married to Elizabeth Snyder (miniature painter). He died on ...
33. James Harcourt
Actor | Hobson's Choice
James Harcourt was born on April 20, 1873 in Headingley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hobson's Choice (1931), Night Train to Munich (1940) and The Farmer's Wife (1941). He died on February 18, 1951 in London, England, UK.
34. Hans Wassmann
Actor | Louise de Lavallière
Hans Wassmann was born on January 1, 1873 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Louise de Lavallière (1922), Der Liebeskäfig (1925) and Vater geht auf Reisen (1932). He died on April 5, 1932 in Berlin, Germany.
35. Annie Hartley
Self | Roundhay Garden Scene
Annie Hartley was born in 1873 in Yorkshire, England, UK.
36. Clifford Brooke
Actor | A Woman's Face
Clifford Brooke was born on March 31, 1873 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Woman's Face (1941), Wilson (1944) and The Sea Hawk (1940). He was previously married to Edith Mildred Drake. He died on December 28, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
37. John Philliber
Actor | Double Indemnity
John Philliber was born on July 6, 1873 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Double Indemnity (1944), It Happened Tomorrow (1944) and A Lady Takes a Chance (1943). He was previously married to Fredalena Kline. He died on November 6, 1944 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA.
38. Martha Petelle
Actress | Let Not Man Put Asunder
Martha Petelle was born in 1873 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is known for Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924), The Clean Heart (1924) and Her Marriage Vow (1924).
39. Sydney Fairbrother
Actress | Down Our Street
Sydney Fairbrother was born on July 31, 1873 in Southwark, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Down Our Street (1932), Don Quixote (1923) and The Temperance Fete (1932). She was previously married to Trevor Lowe (Charles Montague Trevor Lowe) and Percy Buckler (Thomas Percy Warr ...
40. Willa Cather
Writer | O Pioneers!
Willa Cather was born in 1875 on a small farm close to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. She was the eldest of seven children born to Charles Cather, a deputy Sheriff and struggling entrepreneur, and Mary Virginia Boak Cather. The family's Irish ancestors had settled in Pennsylvania in the ...
41. Tom McGuire
Actor | Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Tom McGuire was born on September 1, 1873 in Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), City Girl (1930) and Lights of New York (1928). He died on May 6, 1954 in Hollywood, California, USA.
42. Minnie Dupree
Actress | The Young in Heart
Minnie Dupree was born on January 19, 1873 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for The Young in Heart (1938), Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) and Two Masters (1928). She died on May 23, 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.
43. Roy Redgrave
Actor | Our Friends the Hayseeds
Roy Redgrave was born on April 26, 1873 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for Our Friends the Hayseeds (1917), Robbery Under Arms (1920) and The Christian (1911). He was previously married to Margaret Scudamore, Ellen Maud Pratt (aka Judith Kyrle) and Esther Mary Cooke (aka Ettie Carlyle). He ...
44. Feodor Chaliapin Sr.
Soundtrack | Hardcore Henry
Feodor Chaliapin Sr. was born on February 13, 1873, in Omet Tawi, near Kazan, Russia. His childhood was full of suffering, hunger, and humiliation. From the age of 10-16, he was working jobs at river ports, restaurants, and tried acting on stage with various Russian provincial troupes. In 1890, ...
45. Charles Clary
Actor | The Penalty
Charles Clary was born on March 24, 1873 in Charleston, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Penalty (1920), The Rosary (1915) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921). He was previously married to Margaret Bechtel. He died on March 24, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
46. Fred Kitchen
Actor | My Brother Jonathan
Fred Kitchen, the great and golden hearted artist was the creator of the sentence "Meredith, we have arrived!" - the last sentence in his famous comedy sketch "Moses and Son", which he went on tour with for many years.
He was one of Fred Karno's - The King of Vaudeville - leading comedians. And he ...
47. H.H. Caldwell
Writer | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A 1891 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, H. H. Caldwell served with distinction in the United States Navy for over twenty years, first serving as Flag Lieutenant to Admiral George Dewey, USN on the U.S.S. Olympia at the battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish American...
48. Harry Solter
Actor | The Taming of the Shrew
Harry Solter was born on November 19, 1873 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Taming of the Shrew (1908), The Romance of a Photograph (1914) and Blind Man's Bluff (1916). He was previously married to Florence Lawrence. He died on March 2, 1920 in El Paso, Texas,...
49. Max Landa
Actor | Aschenbrödel
Max Landa was born on April 24, 1873 in Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor and producer, known for Cinderella (1916), Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich (1921) and Die schwarze Schachdame (1922). He was previously married to Margot Landa. He died on November 8, 1933 in Bled, ...
50. Betty Nansen
Actress | Anna Karenina
Betty Nansen was born on March 19, 1873. Primarily a stage actress, Betty entered films when she was 36 years old. Her first was in 1909, but she was destined to make only six films total during her career with five of those coming in 1915. After ANNA KARENINA, Betty left films. She died four days ...